Well, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? A family member has has some pretty serious stuff going on, so my mind has been elsewhere. After over a month in the hospital and with some long-term healing needing to happen, he’s finally home and my mind is relieved a bit. So here I am.
We’ve had some pretty spectacular sunsets this month.
I took this video years ago and thought it’d be fun to revisit it now, since lambing season is here again. Enjoy!
We left the Wildlife Refuge and headed back along Trout Lake Road, ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the lovely larches. I thought we’d taken videos of driving along the road, but I guess we didn’t. Cuz I can’t find them!
After we parked the car, we saw this cool log cabin in the distance:
And here we go! The thing about the Pacific Northwest is that we can go mauka (toward the mountains) in two different directions! We just turned mauka (north) along Highway 141 in Washington State.
I totally forgot that I’d never written about our autumn advencha to Trout Lake, Washington! So I’m gonna do it now. I kept thinking I’d do it in the fall, and guess what? I never did. But fall photos are pretty, especially now in the middle of winter, and it’s been a long time since we’ve done a road trip together. So k’den. Imua!
After getting coffee for the road at Bow and Arrow Coffeehouse in Damascus, I pulled in to our Realtor’s office to take a photo of this gorgeous Japanese maple.
On Christmas Day, Nolemana and I drove up to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge which seems to be our yearly adventure. We always take the back road in so that we can see if that old house on the way is still there. It was, but it’s looking more sad every time we see it. To think that it once housed a family here, and now it’s collapsing walls will soon be gone makes me sad.
Well, changing from 365 Days didn’t get me anywhere, did it? So I’m going to go back to it again, but I’ll intersperse it with stories. I think that’ll be the best way. I’ve had a hard time keeping up da bloggie; we’ve lost several family members in a short amount of time, and I’ve had a tough time keeping my head above the water. I’ve been taking photos and won’t try to play catch-up much… I’d like to make a new beginning instead.
Don’t give up on me; January 1st will be a new beginning again.
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